Rousey was Determined to Enter UFC

She said she probably gets that quality from her mom, Ann Maria
Rousey DeMars, a former Judo world champion who currently works as
a professor at USC.

“My mom is the mean version of me,” the outspoken Rousey quipped.
“She’s 6-feet of mean shoved down to 5-feet-2.”

Before Rousey, a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in Judo, ever stepped
into the cage as a professional fighter, she made it her mission to
convert UFC president Dana White into a women’s MMA fan.

“It was a goal of mine from the very beginning actually,” Rousey
said. “I just refused to be ignored pretty much. I said to myself,
‘What would work?’ I just thought, ‘I’m going to make myself so
impossible to ignore and make myself into something that they
didn’t even know that they needed.’